Worldwide tour by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble | |
![]() Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble at New York City's Beacon Theatre on December 28, 1983
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Location | North America, Europe |
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Associated album | Texas Flood |
Start date | June 22, 1983 |
End date | February 25, 1984 |
Legs | 4 |
No. of shows | 116 |
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble concert chronology |
The Texas Flood Tour was a worldwide concert tour by American blues rock band Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Presented in support of their debut studio album Texas Flood, it the group's first tour as an international act. After receiving positive reception for the album, the tour brought the band to further commercial and critical acclaim. Like all of the group's other tours, the Texas Flood Tour was a basic, minimalistic production. Although Vaughan and Double Trouble never followed a set list, all ten songs from Texas Flood were played at least once during the tour.
Consisting of four legs and 116 shows, the Texas Flood Tour began on June 22, 1983 in Bloomington, Indiana and concluded on February 25, 1984 in Honolulu, Hawaii. After the first leg in North America, Vaughan and Double Trouble visited Europe, where they made an appearance at the Reading Festival in England. They then returned to North America where they opened for acts such as Men at Work and the Moody Blues. For the final show in Honolulu, the band opened for Bryan Adams and The Police.
After Texas Flood had been released on June 13, 1983 the tour began three days later at Club Tango in Dallas. The band played 38 shows which were mostly nightclubs. Their July 11 performance at the El Mocambo was recorded for what turned out to be a concert film entitled Live at the El Mocambo; a rendition of "Texas Flood" was included on the compilation album Blues at Sunrise in 2000. A sold-out performance at The Palace in Hollywood was recorded, with three songs from the concert released as bonus tracks on the re-release of Texas Flood in 1999.